All Published Work
The New York Times
“Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?” October 2024. (Featured in The Times’ evening newsletter)
“When Your Sexuality Is Against the Law,” May 2023.
Sequencer Magazine
Sequencer Magazine author page
Features
“No, mpox isn’t bringing a ‘second lockdown’,” August 2024. (Republished in Slate)
“I’ll say it. I’m concerned about bird flu.” May 2024. (Republished in Slate)
“Stop asking me why I care about tuberculosis,” March 2024.
Hawaiʻi Public Radio
Features
“Yale evolutionary biology professor shares his local background,” October 2024.
“Gaps in Maui wildfire data pose questions about the future,” September 2024.
“A sneak peek of Washington Middle School's new professional recording studio,” July 2024.
“Climate change-fueled hurricanes could harm Hawaiʻi's birds,” June 2024.
“Father-son duo shares journey as sommeliers,” June 2024.
“Here's why Big Island rejected more gun permits than other counties in 2023,” May 2024.
“Ratepayers could see higher bills as HECO pays off Maui wildfire damage costs,” April 2024.
“This historian is diving into the little-known work of Hawaiʻi women during World War II,” March 2024.
Fast Company
“Meet Kim Culmone, the Mattel doll designer who made Barbie a star again,” June 2024.
“Queer 50 2023,” June 2023. (Contributed blurbs for Bethany Eppner, Clare Martorana, Shamina Singh, and Joannie Fu.)
“Queer 50 2022,” Fast Company, June 2022. (Contributed blurbs for Arlan Hamilton, Megan Prichard, and Irma Olguin Jr.)
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine author page
“These Researchers Are Digging Into the Understudied Science of Roots,” March 2024 (online).
“A New Project Uses Isotopes to Pinpoint the Birthplaces of the Enslaved,” January 2024 (print).
“One Reason Migrating Birds Get Lost Is Out of This World,” November 2023 (online).
“Where Fox News Is Hard to Come By,” July 2022 (print).
“Saving the Imperiled Saltmarsh Sparrow,” June 2022 (print).
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast author page (for all stories)
Features
“Meet the TikTok Girlies Helping ChatGPT Become Even Smarter,” January 2024.
“Meet the Therapists Offering Mental Health Support on Minecraft,” November 2023.
“How a Former Columbia Professor Fell Deep Into ‘Psychic’ Pseudoscience,” April 2023.
“Why Your Grandparents Might Move to Your College Campus,” April 2023.
“How a Popular Video Game Trait Can Trigger Gambling Problems,” March 2023.
“Inside the Controversial Claim Rocking the Weather World,” March 2023.
“What This VR Pole-Dancer Wants You To Know About the Metaverse,” March 2023.
“How a Dubious Parasite Cleanse Keeps Taking Over TikTok,” February 2023.
“ChatGPT Keeps Imploding Because of Crochet. (Seriously.)” February 2023.
“Savannah Sparks Is TikTok’s Most Polarizing Medical Misinformation Sleuth. She Doesn’t Care.” January 2023.
“COVID’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Infect Us All Again (and Again),” January 2023.
“Our Most Promising Cancer Treatment Hasn’t Met Expectations. That Could Change in 2023.” January 2023.
“How NASA Is Fixing Supersonic Flight’s Big Loud Problem,” December 2022.
“Pandemic Grifters Are Here to Stay,” December 2022.
“Dog Genes Hold More Secrets About Humans Than You Think,” December 2022
“Why the Gonzo ‘Rome Isn’t Real’ Conspiracy Keeps Going Viral,” December 2022.
“Why Dogs Once Trained to Sniff Out COVID and Weed Are Now Out of Work,” November 2022.
“Why Your Next Workout Might Just Be in the Metaverse,” November 2022.
“It’s Time We Burn the UN Climate Conference to the Ground,” November 2022.
“What Medicine Keeps Getting Wrong About Long COVID—and How to Fix It,” November 2022.
“TikTok’s Love for Crime Scene Cleanup Is Bloody Complicated,” October 2022.
“Yes, Scientists Made a Deadlier COVID Virus. No, It’s Not Bad.” October 2022.
“Humans Are Hardwired to Cheat. Here’s How We Stop Ourselves.” October 2022.
“How I Got Body-Shamed by a Pair of Digital Pants,” October 2022.
“We’re Treating UTIs All Wrong. Here’s How We Fix That.” September 2022.
“Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death for the Metaverse,” September 2022.
“How Bots Can Prevent Opioid Overdoses Before They Happen,” September 2022.
“Inside the Freaky World of Spotted Lanternfly Fetish Videos,” August 2022.
“Roe’s Overturn Will Stall Decades of Women’s Health Research,” August 2022.
“Virtual Reality Could Completely Transform Mental Health—if We’re Ready,” August 2022.
“A Rare Outbreak of Hepatitis in Children Has Doctors Baffled,” July 2022.
“Can We ‘Hack’ Our Bodies to Resist Heat Waves?” July 2022.
“Meet the Doctors Taking to the High Seas to Perform Abortions,” July 2022.
“The Zany Quest to Solve Gravity in an Abandoned Bunker Under the Swiss Alps,” July 2022.
“Automated Stem Cell Factories Are Coming to Space,” May 2022.
Scientific American
“NASA Eyes Electric Car Tech for Future Moon Rovers,” February 2022.
“SpaceX’s Starship Could Rocket-Boost Research in Space,” September 2021.
“Suspect List Narrows in Mysterious Bird Die-Off,” August 2021.
“Inspired by Chronic Illness, She Made Award-Winning Art about the Brain,” August 2021.
“Wave Power Charges Ahead with Static Electricity Generators,” August 2021.
“The Olympics without Fans Is Harming Athletes’ Performance,” July 2021. (Featured on a segment of Science Friday and Mexican radio)
“Spiders on Tiny Treadmills Give Scientists the Side Eye,” July 2021.
“COVID Risks at the Tokyo Olympics Aren’t Being Managed, Experts Say,” July 2021.
“Black Holes Swallow Neutron Stars in a Single Bite, New Results Suggest,” July 2021.
“A Single Gene Gave Geckos Beautiful Color—and Cancer,” June 2021.
“A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit,” June 2021. (Featured in the August 2021 issue of Scientific American Space & Physics; Interviewed in this article for The Open Notebook)
“Neck-Zapping Gadget Reduced All-Nighter Fatigue in New Study,” June 2021.
Audio
“During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities,” September 2021.
“Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic,” August 2021.
“COVID, Quickly, Episode 12: Masking Up Again and Why People Refuse Shots,” July 2021.
“COVID, Quickly, Episode 11: Vaccine Booster Shots, and Reopening Offices Safely,” July 2021.
“COVID, Quickly, Episode 10: Long Haulers, Delta Woes and Barbershop Shots,” July 2021.
“This Newly Discovered Species of Tree Hyrax Goes Bark in the Night,” June 2021.
PRINT
“AI Diagnoses Devastating Olive Tree Infection,” August 2022.
“Marker Tip—Without Ink!—Makes a Hardy Medical Sampler,” July 2022.
“Acne Inflammation Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments,” June 2022.
“Recycled Tennis Balls Could Protect Buildings from Earthquakes,” January 2022.
“What’s Brewing in a Beer Is Startling Complexity,” November 2021.
“The Venus’s Flower Basket’s Weird Fluid Dynamics Explained,” October 2021.
“Engineered Bacteria Produce a Rainbow of Colors,” September 2021.
“In Case You Missed It,” September 2021.
“The Terrible Toll of 76 Autoimmune Diseases,” September 2021.
“Misophonia Might Not Be about Hating Sounds After All,” September 2021.
“In Case You Missed It,” August 2021.
Book Reviews
“Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos,” October 2024.
“Night Magic: Adventures among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark,” September 2024.
“What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures,” July/August 2024.
“Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat,” June 2024.
“Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World,” May 2024.
“Silk: A World History,” April 2024.
“The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System,” March 2024.
“The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes,” January 2024.
“Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way),” December 2023.
“The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works,” November 2023.
“Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution,” October 2023.
“Of Time and Turtles: Mending The World, Shell by Shattered Shell,” September 2023.
“The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future,” August 2023.
“Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music,” May 2023.
“Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us,” March 2023.
“Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body,” December 2022.
“The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion,” September 2022.
“The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy,” August 2022.
“The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars,” July 2022.
“The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World,” June 2022.
“Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance,” May 2022.
“Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs,” April 2022.
“Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos,” March 2022.
“Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas,” February 2022.
“This Boy We Made,” January 2022.
“The Arts of the Microbial World,” November 2021.
“Being You,” October 2021.
STAT News
“Research on mice that ‘sweat out’ fat wins STAT Madness for University of Pennsylvania,” April 2022.
“Here are the contenders for STAT Madness 2022. Voting begins March 1,” February 2022.
“Texas is trying to create the next research triangle for biotech. Will it work?” January 2022. (Interviewed on Texas public radio)
“As a Logic song topped the charts, helpline saw more calls and fewer suicides,” December 2021. (Featured in WaPo’s The Health 202 newsletter)
“Changing the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is more than just semantics, experts argue,” December 2021.
“Pear makes its stock market debut & telehealth players lock arms,” December 2021.
“Despite interventions, Black and Hispanic men are contracting HIV at the same rates as 10 years ago,” November 2021.
“4 food allergy immunotherapy companies to watch,” November 2021.
“‘We all have to come together’: Experts lay out how to keep AI in health care in check,” November 2021.
“A new, gel-based wearable can catch infections before the naked eye can,” November 2021.
“Startup Spotlight: Rectify is hoping it can mend broken ABC transporters, starting in the liver,” November 2021.
“White House delays Covid-19 vaccine mandates for contractors,” November 2021.
“As ‘test to stay’ gears up nationwide, Massachusetts’ ‘rocky’ rollout raises questions,” October 2021. (Featured in WaPo’s The Health 202 newsletter)
“Could wearable tech — and AI — change how we diagnose infants with conditions like cerebral palsy?” October 2021.
“Three lessons for the effort to scale up Covid-19 rapid tests,” October 2021.
“5 health tech startups working to address chronic pain without opioids,” October 2021.
“‘Reaching a detente’ with SARS-CoV-2: Helen Branswell on covering Covid-19, misinformation and more,” October 2021.
“Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing,” October 2021.
“A new study points to the power of wearables to predict even presymptomatic infections, suggesting use one day against Covid-19,” September 2021.
“Saying ‘person with schizophrenia,’ not ‘schizophrenic,’ can affect clinician beliefs, study finds," September 2021. (Featured in Advisory Board’s daily briefing”)
Motherboard: Tech By VICE
“Man Swims Through Ocean Garbage Patch for Months, Finds Amazing Life,” May 2022.
“Why Did Hundreds of Birds Die at the World Trade Center in One Morning?” September 2021.
“Gen Z Is Developing Unexplained Tics After Going Online, And Doctors Are Concerned,” September 2021. (Interviewed on Slate’s ICYMI podcast)
“The COVID-19 Lab Leak Debate Shows How Experts Failed Us,” June 2021. (Featured in The New York Times Debatable newsletter; selected as an Honorable Mention for Best Shortform Science Writing: January-June 2021)
“Doctors and Scientists Are Fighting Vaccine Misinformation on TikTok,” June 2021. (Featured in The Hill’s Hillicon Valley newsletter)
“Earth's Biodiversity Could Take Millions of Years to Recover from Human Influence,” May 2021.
“Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It's Hauntingly Beautiful,” April 2021.
“America’s Disastrous Vaccine Rollout Is Finally Recovering. Here’s What Went Wrong,” February 2021.
“Why We Need Quantum Tech In Space to Fight Climate Change,” December 2020.
“Why We're Finally Closing In On a Game-Changing Universal Flu Vaccine,” December 2020.
“Invasive Wasps Are Posing a 'Serious Threat' to Passenger Planes, Study Says,” December 2020.
“Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms,” November 2020.
“Trump Is Trying to Lease Arctic Land for Drilling Before Biden Takes Over,” November 2020.
“OK, What Is Room-Temperature Superconducting and Will It Change Everything?” November 2020.
“A Rogue Mars-Sized Planet Is Hurtling Through Our Galaxy,” October 2020.
“Inside the Bizarre Publishing Ring That Linked 5G to Coronavirus,” October 2020. (Featured as a quote of the day by MIT Tech Review’s The Download)
“Flying During COVID-19 Isn't Quite As Safe As United Airlines Says,” October 2020.
“Scientists Made 'Breaking Bad'-Inspired GPS Turtle Eggs to Fight Poaching,” October 2020.
“Americans Overwhelmingly Support Human-Animal Chimera Research, Survey Finds,” October 2020.
“The High Cost of Academic Publishing Leaves Africa Behind,” September 2020.
“Are Digital Pregnancy Tests a Wasteful Scam? An Investigation,” September 2020.
“The World’s Most Powerful Camera Took 3,200-Megapixel Photos,” September 2020.
“Mathematicians Made a Basic Discovery in Shapes After 2,000 Years,” September 2020.
“A Mysterious Crater Suddenly Opened Up in the Arctic Tundra,” September 2020.
“Scientists Found Rust on the Moon. That Should Be Impossible,” September 2020.
“Scientists Detected a New Kind of Black Hole Being Born in a Bizarre Event,” September 2020.
“Scientists Discovered a Massive 'Bridge' Between Galaxy Clusters,” August 2020.
“Scientists Created AI to Analyze People's Dreams on a Massive Scale,” August 2020.
“Particles From Space Are Messing With Our Quantum Computers, Scientists Discover,” August 2020.
“This Scientist Spent Decades Cataloging 57,424 Man-Made Objects in Space,” August 2020.
“A DIY Vaccine Can't Solve the COVID-19 Crisis,” August 2020.
“It’s OK if Countries Hack Each Others’ Vaccines,” July 2020. (Featured as a top ten must-read by MIT Tech Review’s The Download)
“OK, WTF Is Hydroxychloroquine and Can it Treat Coronavirus?” March 2020.
“You Can Now Access 1.4 Million Books for Free Thanks to the Internet Archive,” March 2020.
“America's Supercomputers Are Now Helping Scientists Fight Coronavirus,” March 2020.
"The World After This,” March 2020 (Healthcare section).
“People Are Trying to Make DIY Ventilators to Meet Coronavirus Demand,” March 2020.
“Doctors Have Injected DNA-Editing CRISPR Into a Live Person's Eye,” March 2020.
“She Blew the Whistle on Pathogens That Escaped From a Government Lab. Now She’s Being Fired,” February 2020.
“Scientists Discover the First Animal That Doesn’t Breathe Oxygen to Live,” February 2020.
“The Sun is Mysteriously Causing Whales to Strand and Die, Research Suggests,” February 2020.
“How a City Decides to Buy This Ridiculous $2,000 Weed-Smelling Device,” February 2020.
“Scientists Are Encrypting Information Using Crystals,” February 2020.
“Climate Change Predictions Have Suddenly Gone Catastrophic. This Is Why,” February 2020.
“Scientists Found Harmful 'Forever Chemicals' in Pet Cats and Dogs,” February 2020.
“Mount Everest Is a Poo-Covered Death Trap, So Climbers Are Speedrunning It,” February 2020.
“'It’s a Moral Imperative': Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls,” February 2020.
“The U.S. West Coast Is Now So Acidic That It's Dissolving Baby Crab Shells,” January 2020.
“Materials Scientists Learn We’ve Been Brewing Espresso All Wrong,” January 2020.
“Scientists Found Ancient, Never-Before-Seen Viruses in a Glacier,” January 2020.
“Ancient Humans Tried to Defend Against Rising Seas. They Failed,” December 2019.
“These Glasses Contain a Secret Video File Coded in DNA,” December 2019.
“Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing,'“ December 2019.
“Scientists Found a Planet Orbiting a Dead Star, a Glimpse Into Our Future,” December 2019.
“Rare Individuals Are Amazing at Reading Cats' Expressions. Are You One of Them?” December 2019.
“So, WTF Is Up With Putting a Human in ‘Suspended Animation?’” November 2019. (Selected as a Top Pick for Best Shortform Science Writing: October-December 2019)
“A Mysterious Burst of Energy in Space Has Smashed Records,” November 2019.
“Evolution Keeps Repeating Itself. Scientists Are Starting to Understand Why,” November 2019.
“Itchy? These Worms Are Suddenly Breeding in People's Eyes and Scientists Are Baffled,” November 2019.
“Global Capitalism Is Destroying Habitats for Rare Species in Brazil, Study Shows,” October 2019.
“A Brainless Blob That 'Learns' and 'Sleeps' Is on Display at the Paris Zoo,” October 2019.
“A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies,” October 2019.
“Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies' Toxic Abilities,” October 2019.
“This Worm Has Three Sexes,” September 2019.
“A Glacier In the Alps Is Facing Imminent Collapse, Prompting Evacuation,” September 2019.
“Imelda Blanketed the Houston Area In Almost 1 Million Lightning Bolts,” September 2019.
“Bull Semen Lab Explosion a 'Blow' to Farmers,” September 2019.
“This $30 Device Turns the Cold of Outer Space Into Renewable Energy,” September 2019. (Selected as an Honorable Mention for Best Shortform Science Writing: July-September 2019)
“This Synthetic Leaf Turns Sunlight Into Drugs,” September 2019.
PRINT
“How the USPS Reads Your Terrible Handwriting,” September 2020. (An article for a print zine about the Postal Service.)
Popular Science
“How does an mRNA vaccine work?” January 2021.
“Does it matter which COVID-19 vaccine you get?” January 2021.
“What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines,” December 2020. (Interviewed on Marketplace, featured on Apple News Today, selected as a Top Pick for Best Shortform Science Writing: July-December 2020)
PRINT
“Why sports fans cling to superstitions,” September 2020 (Fall 2020 Print Issue).
Inverse
“How one architect’s radical ideas about nature changed American cities forever,” April 2022.
“Future Earth 2121,” April 2021. (A series of five scenarios exploring what the Earth might look like in 100 years: a supervolcano explodes, the ice caps melt, an asteroid impacts, a pandemic wipes out 10 percent of humanity, and humans stop global warming)
Branded Content
“Meet the ‘most powerful’ team in Science Olympiad,” September 2020.
“Meet Darrion Nguyen, the Bill Nye of millennials,” September 2020.
“Kellie Gerardi might be the first social media star in space,” August 2020.
“Nadya Peek creates machines that can make (almost) anything,” August 2020.
“Juli Lawless knows no bounds,” August 2020.
“Sarah McAnulty has a tentacle in every pot,” August 2020.
“These teens want to solve plastic pollution through gene-editing,” August 2020.
“Michelle Kunimoto boldly discovers where no one has before,” July 2020.
“An EEG for Black people: It came to Arnelle Etienne in a dream,” June 2020.
“Masaki Takeuchi is using A.I. to give a voice to the voiceless,” May 2020.
Massive Science
“How did birds become birds? An interview with Jingmai O’Connor,” September 2020. (Q&A with vertebrate paleontologist produced in partnership with Science Friday)
“Thinking of applying for the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship? Get inside tips from former fellows,” December 2019 (Q&A with four former AAAS Mass Media Fellows)
“Climate change is heartbreaking. We can turn that pain towards action,” September 2019. (Q&A with climate activist Katharine Wilkinson)
“The Blob, and other effects of climate change that we aren’t talking about,” September 2019.
“When antibiotics stopped working, these viruses saved a girl’s life,” July 2019. (Republished in Salon and featured in ScienceSeeker’s weekly “best posts” roundup)
“By 2100, the ocean will be a different color,” June 2019. (Republished in Salon, Pacific Standard and Thompson Earth Systems Institute)
Lab Notes
“Historical paintings can tell us how our food evolved,” July 2020.
“Worried about coronavirus? Try shaving,” February 2020.
“Coronavirus update: widespread diagnostic testing, bioRxiv, and two public health futures,” February 2020.
“Just like your dog, some wolf puppies can play fetch,” September 2019.
“The summer slump happens in scientific publishing, too,” August 2019.
“Can we take down the dude wall? Can universities glorify anyone besides white men?” August 2019.
“What the ‘millennials are growing horns’ story can teach us about scientific literacy,” July 2019.
“RelativelyRisky points out the fine print in medical studies,” July 2019.
“A ‘jumping’ gene helped this fish live in freshwater,” June 2019.
“The gypsy ant is dead! Long live the itiner-ant!,” June 2019.
CNN Health
“A photographic treatment for people with dementia,” August 2018. (En Español)
“Too cute? Colleges, courts grapple with the role of companion animals,” August 2018.
“Juul and the vape debate: Choosing between smokers and teens,” August 2018.
“Amid seizures, man sketched his ‘beautiful’ hallucinations,” August 2018.
“Vitamin D: Deficiency, food sources and what you need to know,” August 2018. (En Español)
“Glued to our screens, and trying to get unstuck,” July 2018. (En Español)
“The myth of the sunscreen pill,” July 2018. (En Español)
“Liver disease deaths spike among young Americans,” July 2018.
“California keeps close eye on whooping cough after infant’s death,” July 2018.
“Woman’s tingling legs turned out to be parasite in her back,” July 2018. (En Español)
“Liver cancer death rate in US surged 43% in 16 years,” July 2018. (Featured in WaPo’s The Health 202 newsletter)
“Wisconsin reports first death from Rocky Mountain spotted fever,” July 2018.
“Sunscreen 101: Your guide to summer sun protection and sunburn care,” June 2018.
“What is Percocet? Drug facts, side effects, abuse and more,” July 2018.
Yale Daily News
“Consider the Hot Dog,” September 2020.
“Tyson’s honorary degree comes into question,” December 2018.
“New Haven’s skeletons,” November 2018. (Written for the YDN’s monthly long-form magazine)
“Nobel laureate Thomas Steitz dies at 78,” October 2018.
“Profs feel satisfied, snubbed by Nobel Prizes,” October 2018.
“Study seeks to evaluate a ‘fake news’ intervention method,” September 2017.
“Grimm appeals for more effective science communication,” September 2017.
“Researchers attempt to revive extinct species,” September 2017.
“To isolate Lyme disease bacteria, Yale researchers ‘go fishing’,” September 2017.
“Fine art enhances radiologists’ observations,” September 2017.
“A promise, realized: West Campus turns 10,” August 2017.
Other Outlets
“Wonders of Radiance,” Hana Hou! Magazine, April 2024.
“How Will FDA’s Pivot to Overall Survival Affect Cancer Drug Development?” BioSpace, February 2024.
“Master AML Trial Gives Patients New Lease on Life,” BioSpace, January 2024.
“Under the Surface,” Ka Pili Kai, December 2023.
“Embattled Researchers See Path Forward for Anti-CD47 Cancer Drugs,” BioSpace, October 2023.
“Parkinson’s Research Buoyed by Alzheimer’s Advances,” BioSpace, October 2023.
“Going Viral,” GROW, July 2023.
“Windows Into Our Lives,” Collecting These Times, September 2022.
“Humsa Venkatesh Probes Cancer’s Grip on the Brain,” The Scientist Magazine, August 2022.
“Doctors and Distillers” book review, Science, June 2022.
“How Can Antibody-Drug Conjugates Help Patients With Breast Cancer?” Patient Power, June 2022.
“Systems and Providers, Not Patients, Limit Clinical Trial Diversity,” Patient Power, May 2022.
“Surface Area of Tooth Roots Predicts Primate Body Size,” The Scientist Magazine, May 2022.
“Dozens of Genes Tied to Caribou’s Seasonal Migration,” The Scientist Magazine, May 2022.
“Are These Chimpanzees Using Insects as Medicine?” WIRED, March 2022.
“Are Quintuple Jumps in Figure Skating Even Possible?” Slate, February 2022.
“What It Feels Like to Boost Your Testosterone,” Men’s Health Magazine, January 2022 print issue.
The Curie Society, MIT Press, 2021. (Wrote a section of the glossary for a graphic adventure novel for young adults.)
“Slowing the spread of a virus: Phone calls, empathy, contact tracing,” Yale Public Health Magazine (Fall 2020 Issue), October 2020.
“Coronavirus second waves emerge in several US states as they reopen,” New Scientist (UK), June 2020.
“What Jewish medical ethics can teach us about coronavirus,” The Forward, April 2020.
“Tuberculosis: Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention,” Live Science, October 2019.
“What is epilepsy?” Live Science, August 2019. (Updated an article from 2015)
“Cradle of Humankind fossils can now be dated,” EARTH, February 2019.
“Climate cooling a driver of Neanderthals’ extinction,” EARTH, November 2018. (Featured in EARTH’s monthly print magazine)
Science Research
“Engineering complex communities by directed evolution,” Chang CY, Vila JCC, Bender M, Li R, Mankowski MC, Bassette M, Borden J, Golfier S, Sanchez PG, Waymack R, Zhu X, Diaz-Colunga J, Estrela S, Rebolleda-Gomez M, Sanchez A. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021.